Alberta health professionals are concerned that a controversial anti-vaccine film is being screened in the province.

"Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe" played in Calgary in June and is currently playing at an Edmonton theatre.

The film was directed by Andrew Wakefield, a former doctor who was stripped of his medical licence in the UK after publishing a fraudulent study falsely linking vaccines to autism, according to The Huffington Post.

"Vaxxed" has been pulled from the lineup of a number of major film festivals including the Tribeca Film Festival over concerns from the scientific community, The New York Times reported.

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Tim Caulfield, a health researcher at the University of Alberta, is concerned the film could increase rates of people choosing not to vaccinate their children.

“Would [the theatre] show a film about racism that supports discrimination against a particular sector of our society? Probably not. Would they bring in a film that supports eugenic activity? Probably not. So there is a line… and for some reason they decided this film that really creates and supports inaccurate health myths is OK and I think that’s problematic," he told Global News.